Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] looking [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps the ancient fairies are looking after things round here . ’ |
| 2 | Erm a lot of employers are looking at self funding because the m They can manage their own money and it 's much more efficient to do so and then they also have a lot more control over the management of the claims themselves because they select their own management corporation . |
| 3 | This is a welcome initiative , especially as National Park Authorities are looking at ways to reduce car use by visitors . |
| 4 | Cops are looking for Howie . |
| 5 | Interviewers are looking for qualities like confidence and ambition . |
| 6 | Interviewers are looking for enthusiasm and initiative |
| 7 | So , because of the fierce competition , a number of houses are looking at gimmicks to try to bring their new authors to the fore . |
| 8 | ( ITV , 8pm ) PC Stamp is n't licked yet he 's convinced that three brothers are looking for revenge when he sees them armed with baseball bats and no ball ! |
| 9 | The three speakers are looking at photographs in an album . |
| 10 | Incidentally , lest any Scots are looking for replacements for their back row , Ian is as Afrikaans as the ‘ Bok of days gone by who , when asked about language difficulties in France , replied that two expressions were all that was necessary : ‘ Parlez-vous and Kamer toe ’ ( Afrikaans for ‘ to the room ? ’ ) ! |
| 11 | ‘ Clients are looking for people with specific skills and are very choosy , ’ says Tony Jackson , consultant for taxation recruitment specialists Beament Leslie Thomas . |
| 12 | Other schools are looking at business and industry in their home towns . |
| 13 | Mr Jones read somewhere that children who hit their parents are looking for love and attention . |
| 14 | ‘ Britain 's influence is much weaker and countries are looking to Germany for a lead , ’ he said . |
| 15 | The Vice Chancellors are looking for scholarships to meet these fees , and money for those scholarships may come from government , industry , benefactors or private individuals . |
| 16 | And electronics companies are looking at ways to re-use components and recover materials from their products . |
| 17 | Univel 's regional marketing manager for Europe , Bernard Moing , says , ‘ our engineers are looking at NT code in co-operation with Novell and connectivity support will be available as soon as NT starts to ship . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Our judges are looking for perfection , ’ says a spokeswoman for the Brick Development Association . |
| 19 | ‘ The problem is that the judges are looking at extremes — maybe comparing an ad selling commemorative medals of the election with one featuring designer Christmas cards . |
| 20 | American Football Team , Edinburgh Eagles is looking for girls to join its squad of cheerleaders . |
| 21 | Art dealers are looking for quality work and if the dispirited pastiches I came across in the East End are representative of the best on offer this is clearly going to be an increasingly difficult task . |
| 22 | Top-end forecasts are looking for £55m , an increase of just over 15% . |
| 23 | Stubble burning will be banned from next year , and now farmers are looking at alternatives . |
| 24 | I mean , mathematicians are looking for truths , are n't they , in a way ? |
| 25 | By this stage learners are looking for opportunities to extend their already considerable store of language , to test their ability to retrieve from this store , to improve their fluency and to refine their control . |
| 26 | The SSD 's officers are looking at ways to help groups work with the changes . |
| 27 | This years fund managers are looking for gains in order to diversify into those cyclical sectors which benefit from an economic recovery . |
| 28 | Only one man , it seems , was willing to take general relativity at face value , and while Einstein and other physicists were looking for ways of avoiding general relativity 's prediction of a nonstatic universe , the Russian physicist and mathematician Alexander Friedmann instead set about explaining it . |
| 29 | Chickens were looking for food . |
| 30 | Example 5 : Three middle infants were looking at wood-lice through a magnifying glass . |